Sherdil Certified
Linux Administrator Course Outline

System Specification:

– 2 GHz dual core processor or better.
– 4 GB system memory.
– 25 GB of free hard drive space.
– Internet access is helpful.

Application Requirement

– VMware: Download Now

– Virtual Box: Download Now

ISO Images:

– Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: Download Now

– CentOS 7.4: Download Now

• Objectives and Introduction to the course and instructor
• Introduction to Linux
• Introduction to linux distributions
• The benefits of Linux
• List of essential commands of linux

• • Objectives
  • Linux distribution
  • Installing Centos 7.5
  • Installing Ubuntu 18.04
  • Logging into linux
  • Shutting down system
  • Using the essential commands of linux

• Objectives
• Understanding Linux file system hierarchy
• Navigating to different directories
• Ways of using ls in linux
• Cp file/directory from one location to another
• Mv file/directory from one location to another
• Deleting file/directory
• Finding files command
• Archiving files with tar
• Managing file compression
• Using Wildcard

• • List of text editors in linux
  • Understanding vi
  • Understanding difference between vi and vim
  • Creating text file with vi/vim
  • Browse the files with help of more and less
  • Command to see start and end of the file
  • Command to display file content
  • Usage of grep
  Examples of grep command

• Objectives
• Understanding Users
• Understanding importance of root user and its vulnerability
• Enabling root user and disabling root user
• Using of su
• Using sudo
• Using ssh to connect to a remote user
• Creating random user
• Delete random user
• Navigating random user’s directory
• Updating random user password
• Understanding file ownership
• Command to create groups
• Adding user to any group
• Giving ownership to a file or directory
• Checking user properties
• Making user a sudo user
• Understanding user and group configuration files

• Objectives
• Understanding basic linux permissions
• Commands to manage basic linux permissions

• Objectives
• Understanding Linux storage management
• Creating MBR and GPT partitions
• Creating filesystem and mounting filesystems
• Understanding swap and adding swap partition
• Working with fstab configuration file

• Objectives
• Understanding of SSH
• Configuring and Enabling SSH service
• Creating SSH keys
• Using Public/Private SSH keys
• Command to copy files to remote server
• Synchronization of directory

• Objectives
• Understanding of FTP and SFTP
• Configuring FTP and SFTP

• Objectives
• Configuration of web service (Apache)
• Managing web service log files
• Configuring a virtual host for random website
• Creating a test html file

• Objectives
• Understanding of Database
• Different type of Databases
• Installing Simple Database
• Granting permission to a user with password
• Delete user
• Allowing access remotely and locally
• Deleting database

• Objectives
• Understanding linux logging

• Objectives
• Understanding of process management
• Tools to monitor processes
• Monitoring process properties with ps
• Process Kill

• Objectives
• Understanding of shell and other linux components
• Working with history
• Simple bash scripting for automation